Willcox v. State

McNULTY, Judge.

Appellants, husband and wife, were indicted for first degree murder but were convicted of second degree murder in the beating death of their four-year old foster child David. They raise eight points on appeal, the first of which argues that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction. At the outset, we summarily dispose of this first point by holding that while the evidence is conflicting it was more than sufficient to support the jury finding that appellants were guilty of second degree murder.

Of the remaining seven points raised by appellants only one merits…